Friday Night at Eighth and Rail. Pasadena plays Country-influenced Rock N Roll. Our music is an extension of our personalities. Sometimes laid back, sometimes the life of the party. Sometimes a lover, sometimes a fighter. There’s no agenda, blanket statement or pointed themes to these songs, just short musical pieces of real life from real people hoping to strike a chord with you somewhere along the way.
“I’m a hypocrite, that’s the whole deal. I guess sometimes you wake up and decide your gonna follow up your semi successful prog rock EP with a country folk record.” – Owen Beverly on July 4th, 2008
One benefit of growing up in Mississippi is learning to tell a good story; another is being exposed to a lot of good old American music from the Blues and gospel to jazz to Bluegrass, country and Elvis. Mississippi native Owen Beverly pulls all these influences into his new LP, Shooting the Bull.
Veering from the hard rock of his 2003 debut The Drunk Lover EP, Shooting the Bull is a country folk CD co-produced with David Rolfe that showcases Owen Beverly’s versatile songwriting and arranging talents. The common thread between the two albums is they are both built on the ballad — a good story woven into music that amplifies and intensifies it. The songs are about little pieces of life: following a lover to Hollywood, feeling lost after a break-up, looking back on a long relationship, mustering the courage to go on when life lets you down. The music is at once soulful and gutsy, tuneful and poetic.
From the Archives — originally published on the Opelika Daily News on January 16, 2009. View the original page.
